The purpose of this article is to create awareness regarding indoor pool air quality problems and why they exist, while answering frequently asked (and commonly misunderstood) questions.

Air quality has increasingly become a hot-button topic worldwide, garnering the attention of the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). All of the information contained in this article is accessible online through credible resources, and we encourage all of you to research these topics on your own so that we can, together, keep our sport as safe and healthy as possible.

This article was originally posted on www.swimswam.com on January 22, 2014.